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Shovelware is a derogatory term used for software that has either been quickly developed without regard to quality or function and features, or software that has been forced on customers such as those that are preloaded on laptops or smartphones by their respective carriers.
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You can succeed in your digital transfomation and deliver applications and services faster, better, and safely.
How? With Enterprise Agile Delivery. Enterprise Agile Delivery brings a wealth of benefits to organizations and can be adopted by any Agile hybrid framework: SAFe, LESS, Nexus as well as Agile/lean frameworks like Scrum and Kanban.
Yet to achieve Eneterprise Agile Delivery, enterprises need an easy to use modern ALM tool for quick and successful onboarding. Download this white paper to understand how the right solution will help you:
• Strategiaclly align feature releases and backlogs with your overall business strategy
• Identify and prioritize dev and test activities with visibility into project waves and portfolios
• Make data-based decisons for safe releases with real-time insights and multidimensional views into delivery risks
• Sync business, dev, QA and release teams around shared objectives with automated coordination and communication

The Internet of Things is growing fast: By 2025, IoT devices will transmit an estimated 90 zettabytes of data to their intended targets, according to IDC. Armed with information, businesses can revolutionise everything from fraud detection to customer service. But first, they need an architecture that supports real-time analytics so they can gain actionable insights from their IoT data.
Read the complete report sponsored by Google Cloud, and learn how to mitigate key IoT-related challenges.

The Internet of Things is growing fast: By 2025, IoT devices will transmit an estimated 90 zettabytes of data to their intended targets, according to IDC. Armed with information, businesses can revolutionise everything from fraud detection to customer service. But first, they need an architecture that supports real-time analytics so they can gain actionable insights from their IoT data.
Read the complete report sponsored by Google Cloud, and learn how to mitigate key IoT-related challenges.

Practical perspectives on leveraging data to grow sales, cut costs, up-sell more effectively and make better decisions. Marketers overwhelmingly agree they have access to more than enough data. The problem is finding actionable ways to utilize data that is collected across all customer interaction points to better engage with customer and increase lifetime customer value. This white paper explores the relevance of big data for marketers: what they need to know and the steps they should take today to embrace data and analytics to position their organizations for success today.

How can brands make the most of the growing opportunities offered by location data? Understanding location and its connection to customer behaviour is key to gaining full and reliable insights and making efficient change.
HERE is building and sharing real-time location intelligence which reveals why customers make transactions in specific places. HERE’s Open Location Platform contextualises consumer motivations in the world around them. As the world’s leading location platform in 2018 (Source: Ovum and Counterpoint Research annual indexes) HERE also shares its own insights into the future of reaching customers on their mobile devices as they travel, including in-car advertising.

How do you keep people safe in a ‘once in a 1,000 years’ weather event? Hurricane Harvey was a category four hurricane which struck the coast of Texas, eastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana in August 2017.
HERE was able to track the storm and accurately report more than 2,100 road closures and blockages in real-time helping people stay out of harm’s way.
HERE is the world’s leading provider of traffic incident information to the automotive industry. This eBook shows how HERE’s deploys its people and artificial intelligence to gather the data, check it for accuracy and produce insights which keeps drivers safe.

The Digital Edge Playbook for Payments and Commerce outlines how industry leaders are transforming their digital edge to leverage an ecosystem-based value chain for real-time insights and a frictionless experience.
Our simple, three-step strategy offers proven best practices on how to re-architect your presence, integrate cloud and SaaS capabilities and enable new offerings based on interconnected collaboration.
Download this whitepaper today to find out more.

As supply chain technology stacks become more complex, diverse and defined by legacy system integrations, Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are becoming essential to making stacks scale, allowing supply chain managers to better meet the demands of the new generation of consumers. Innovative location APIs that provide supply chain stacks and applications with greater agility, contextual intelligence, real-time data implementation, speed and scale are turning the process of moving goods from A to B into a well-orchestrated exercise in precision.
Introducing new technology into an organization can sometimes be daunting. As one of the world’s leading location platforms, HERE shares insights and tips to streamline the supply chain technology integration across the whole organization.

The overall supply chain is becoming increasingly complex. When running smoothly, this global system lowers costs and improves quality, but as more moving parts are introduced the potential for inefficiency increases.
Greater visibility is key to preventing disruptions and gaps in the supply chain - and location data is the key to enhancing visibility.
By reading this eBook, you will discover:
How location intelligence can help identify areas that are ripe for optimization
How real-time data can provide useful insights on supply chain health and help identify waste in your processes
How HERE helped a car manufacturer identify millions in savings annually by adding location awareness to its supply chain planning

With urbanization set to increase rapidly – the UN predicts that by 2050, 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas – discover how, with HERE, you can keep your city moving. And make it more safe, efficient, and green.
HERE is already working with governments around the world to keep traffic flowing and pollution down. In this guide, discover how, with our growing network of sensors and over 30 years’ experience, we can deliver the real-time insights to keep you abreast of what’s actually happening on your roads, so you can better meet government safety and mobility targets.

You can succeed in your digital transfomation and deliver applications and services faster, better, and safely.
How? With Enterprise Agile Delivery. Enterprise Agile Delivery brings a wealth of benefits to organizations and can be adopted by any Agile hybrid framework: SAFe, LESS, Nexus as well as Agile/lean frameworks like Scrum and Kanban.
Yet to achieve Eneterprise Agile Delivery, enterprises need an easy to use modern ALM tool for quick and successful onboarding. Download this white paper to understand how the right solution will help you:
› Strategiaclly align feature releases and backlogs with your overall business strategy
› Identify and prioritize dev and test activities with visibility into project waves and portfolios
› Make data-based decisons for safe releases with real-time insights and multidimensional views into delivery risks
› Sync business, dev, QA and release teams around shared objectives with automated coordination and communication

Not just some data—all of it. Internal, external,
structured, unstructured, historical, real-time. And what
if you could do it without a huge infrastructure project?
You can. Take a closer look at how three companies
capitalized on more data—almost instantly—with
IBM® BigInsights® on Cloud.

Connected Intelligence in Insurance
Insurance as we know it is transforming dramatically, thanks to capabilities brought about by new technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).
Download this IDC Analyst Infobrief to learn about how the new breed of insurers are becoming more personalized, more predictive, and more real-time than ever.
What you will learn:
The insurance industry's global digital trends, supported by data and analysis
What capabilities will make the insurers of the future become disruptors in their industry
Notable leaders based on IDC Financial Insights research and their respective use cases
Essential guidance from IDC

Until recently, ConAgra Foods struggled to collect accurate, analyzable data about its workforce. Information was spread across the organization in siloed systems within various departments and was often difficult to reconcile. In a few short years, however, ConAgra Foods has been able to leverage technology solutions to gain real-time insights into its employee data and can now analyze its workforce across a wide range of subject areas. Download this case study to see how ConAgra Foods transformed the role of HR through analytics, and to get guidance on how your organization can adopt a similar approach.

What do these market-defining trends have in common?
· Analytics for all
· Analytics as competitive differentiator
· Internet of Things
· Artificial intelligence/Machine learning/Cognitive computing
· Real-time analytics/event management
They all rely on data – timely, accurate data delivered within an insightful context – to deliver value.
The question is: who in the enterprise is most qualified and prepared to help deliver on the vision and
values of the data-driven enterprise?
It’s going to take a special type of professional to deliver that value to enterprises. Organizations are
seeking professionals to step forward and take the lead, provide guidance and lend expertise to move
into the brave new world of digital. The move to digital and all that it entails – sophisticated data
analytics, online customer engagement and digital process efficiency – requires, above all, the skills
and knowledge associated with handling data and turning it into insights. The move to digital is also a

Banks deal with mountains of data and complex transactions that far too often don’t capitalize on the power of an always-on, real-time data management platform to provide both financial insights and peace of mind. Today’s cloud applications require a new, far more holistic approach to data management and data protection. This eBook explains why the scalability, 100% availability, enterprise-grade security, and real-time insights of DataStax Enterprise are essential for banking in the modern world.

This person clearly didn’t work in the financial sector
and clearly didn’t use real-time data management
technology to power innovative financial apps.
When it comes to numbers - specifically, money
numbers and customer interactions - you really
don’t want to leave your data at the mercy of a
legacy system that doesn’t let you mine your data
for all the instant insights it can offer.

Experience IBM Watson Order Optimizer
How can retailers efficiently leverage inventory from one channel to serve another without breaking the bank?
See how IBM Watson Order Optimizer helps Fulfillment, Operations, and Inventory:
Gain a holistic view of omni-channel operations across different functional areas
Optimize in real-time against multiple, competing business objectives
Utilize inventory at its most profitable price point
Make better fulfillment decisions with cognitive insights

Over the past decade there has been a major transformation in the manufacturing industry. Data has enabled a paradigm shift, with real-time IoT sensor data and machine learning algorithms delivering new insights for process and product optimization.
Smart Manufacturing, also known as Industry 4.0, has laid the groundwork for the next industrial revolution. Using a smart factory system, all relevant data is aggregated, analyzed, and acted upon.
We call this Manufacturing Intelligence, which gives decision-makers a competitive edge to:
Digitize the business
Optimize costs
Accelerate innovation
Survive digital disruption
Watch this webinar to understand use cases and their underlying technology that helped our customers become smart manufacturers.

The use of analytics has exploded across business, and the value it already has delivered has heightened executives' expectations. Now data can be processed in real time to meet a constantly widening range of analytic needs. How your organization utilizes them in the next decade will be essential to your success.
These developments come at an opportune time. Organizations are being over-whelmed by the rivers of data generated by applications and systems on-premises or flowing in via the cloud. At the same time, the cost of computational power has declined dramatically, making it practical to apply analytics to and generate information on just about anything.
But no advance comes without challenges. While the widespread availability of analytics has created seemingly valuable insights, executives and managers are finding that those insights are not easily linked to steps that will improve business outcomes or optimize actions. Furthermore, analytics are not always easy for line of b

Illinois-based manufacturer Plano Molding sought to replace a paper-and-pencil data collection process with an automated manufacturing execution system (MES). They wanted a real-time look at production data. Many of their decisions were made based on observations and guesses rather than facts, and they needed deeper insights.
To improve shop floor efficiency and anticipate and solve production issues before they occurred, Plano Molding implemented the Epicor Mattec MES system. The insights they gained into the shop floor are helping to drive bottom-line growth.
Plano Molding has also seen significant scrap savings. Rather than focus on scrap percentage, the Mattec MES solution allows them to focus on higher-dollar-value products. This has led to the Plano Molding team saving $700,000 in scrap improvements.
Read the success story to learn more about Plano Molding’s experience and consider how your business might benefit from a modern production system like Epicor Mattec MES.

Learn how Life Sciences organizations can accelerate Real World Evidence by achieving faster time to insight with a metadata-driven, semantically enriched operational platform.
Real World Evidence (RWE) is today’s big data challenge in Life Sciences. Medical records, registries, consultation reports, insurance claims, pharmacy data, social media, and patient surveys all contain valuable insights that Life Sciences organizations need to ascertain and prove the safety, efficacy, and value of their drugs and medical devices.
Learn how Life Sciences organizations can accelerate RWE with a metadata-driven, semantically enriched operational platform that enables them to:
• Unify, harmonize and ensure governance of information from diverse data sources
• Transform information into evidence that proves product efficacy and safety
• Identify data patterns, connections, and relationships for faster time to insight

Can your current ADC solution elastically scale load balancers and application servers? Does it provide real-time insights and visibility into traffic? There is a lot to consider when it comes to the future of your load balancing strategy. Download our free e-book today!